New contest recognizes for engineering innovation through MSC Nastran

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulation software and services company MSC Software Corp. (MSC) recently founded the MSC Nastran Excellence Award to recognize the engineering and design innovation of its users around the world.

MSC Nastran is a simulation tool used across nearly every kind of industry – from aerospace to medical technology. It is a widely used, trusted, and accurate Finite Element Analysis (FEA) platform for structural simulation. MSC Nastran has been the industry standard in aerospace since NASA’s Apollo missions, and is used to optimize the performance, lifespan and comfort of product designs across all industries.

The Award celebrates MSC Nastran users’ work in FEA simulation to optimize everything from planes, trains, automobiles, white goods, ships, to spacecraft and beyond. Lauding the most interesting and diverse projects using MSC Nastran, the award will provide global recognition to the engineers, designers and manufacturers employing the full potential of the tool, and up to $1,000 in Amazon vouchers or donation to charity of choice.

“MSC Nastran has fueled some of the greatest product innovations in the modern world over the past 50 years, from NASA’s foundational explorations into space, to supporting the mobility, engineering and medical tech today by predictively optimizing designs before prototyping. At MSC we want to celebrate excellence in FEA by shedding light on the incredible innovation happening today, and the many talented people around the world that are using MSC Nastran to design the future,” says Keith Hanna of MSC Software.

Submissions to the award must be made publicly available during the 12 months before nomination, and can include papers presented at conferences, articles appearing in journals and magazines, and other original work documented in a publicly-available form, such as a research thesis.

Projects should demonstrate quantifiable benefits such as quality or productivity improvements, environmental or economic cost reduction. They must push the boundaries of the MSC Nastran tool, with multi-physics applications encouraged. The full criteria and deadlines can be found on at www.mscsoftware.com/msc-nastran-excellence-award-2020.